More accolades for alum Satya Nadella

Time magazine has named Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella (’90 MS computer science) one of its 100 Most Influential People of 2024. For the magazine’s special 2024 Time100 issue, other leaders in an awardee’s field write about them in …

Slavens lab hosts National Biomechanics Day at UWM

For the second year, Brooke Slavens, professor, mechanical engineering, and her lab members celebrated National Biomechanics Day, April 19, by hosting an event for 30 Milwaukee Public Schools high school students. Participants joined in hands-on activities to explore motion analysis, …

Five students inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society

Congratulations to the following students from the College who were initiated into Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society:  The UWM Chapter of Tau Bet Pi, Wisconsin Gamma, held its joint initiation ceremony with Marquette University and Milwaukee School of Engineering …

Two alums honored in their work on behalf of sustainability by U.S. DOE

Farah Nourin (’22 PhD, mechanical engineering) and Ahmad Abbas (’20 PhD, mechanical engineering) were among those recognized for outstanding achievement in energy engineering with an Industrial Assessment Center Alumni Award.  While working on their degrees at UWM, Nourin and Abbas …

Amano’s hydro energy lab featured on Spectrum News

Hydroelectric power accounts for about 6% of the total U.S. energy “pie.” But this renewable source isn’t as efficient as it could be. Some energy is lost because of a phenomenon called cavitation that damages the turbines. Researchers in Professor …

Baltimore Sun interviews Tabatabai on bridge collapse

Baltimore Sun editor Dan Rodericks interviewed Habib Tabatabai (pictured), professor, civil & environmental engineering, on April 8, about the engineering wonder that are bridges spanning water. Tabatabai talked about the many considerations that go into deciding what kind of bridge …

Tabatabai interviewed by media about bridge collapse

Two media outlets featured comments from Habib Tabatabai, professor in civil and environmental engineering, in their reporting of the collapse of the Baltimore bridge on March 26. Wisconsin ranks 23rd in the U.S. in a state’s percentage of bridges classified …